If you are like many people you can easily get stuck when it comes to the twins baby shower invitation. Tracking down the best location, making the lists of people to attend and purchasing a cake can appear to be simple contrasted with picking the right greeting. The babies shower invitation will be the first impression that your guests will have of the occasion. It is therefore important to convey a message through the babies invitation. One really fun and extremely well known method for doing this is to use your babies footprint in the invitation. To resist the little babies footprint is hard. Twins baby shower invitations with a footprint are so irresistible. They will just have to come to your twins baby shower.
So here are some creative ideas that you can use in creating your own baby shower footprint invitation.
1. Printed
A basic printed babies footprint can be a lot of fun. You can use an outline of the twins footprint to make the design. This will show the heel, toes and side of the foot. It will look as if the babies stepped in ink and then stamped the card with their feet. You can find clip art online via searching, use a stamp, use a genuine baby or even freehand draw your own.
To put a little action into the twins baby shower footprint invitation you can make a series of footprints and make them decrease in size from large to smaller. This will give the illusion that the person leaving the prints is walking into the card. This is a great way to draw the attention of the viewer into the card and then place your important text information right above this.
2. Stamps
Stamping has become a very popular craft and is use widely among printers and crafters in the business of making invitations. You can easily purchase baby footprint stamps of varying sizes from your local craft store or on the Internet. These can make a fun and extravagant decoration to the invitation. There are so many things you can do by changing the size, colors of the stamp and the paper. The potential outcomes are truly endless.
For instance pick a soft pink (for twin girls) or a light blue (for twin boys) ink cushion and stamp a little line border made up of footprints all around the invitation. Don’t worry too much about making them all straight or in line just have fun and stamp at random. This will give the invitation a light fun feeling.
As an alternative you can purchase a large stamp and simply stamp a big filled in silhouetted image smack dab in the middle of the invitation. Then you can creatively with fun colored pens write all around the footprint following the outline of it. This makes another fun creative and even whimsical invitation.
3. Embossing
This is where the baby footprint is raised from the page. There are two types of embossing. The first is by using a professional printer and paying to have the cards done. A printer can actually emboss the paper and have a raised footprint right in the paper. A baby footprint embossed onto a beautifully textured pure white piece of paper can look very elegant!
Twins baby shower footprint invitation DIY
If you are the do it yourself type it is very easy to purchase an embossing powder in stamping or craft store. These come in all kinds of fun colors, but often gold or silver embossing powder can look very elegant! With embossing powder you will need a stamp and some ink. You start by stamping the invitation with the baby footprint stamp first. Then before the ink dries you poor some of the embossing powder on the stamped area, the embossing powder will stick to the wet ink. You can then hold the piece of paper over a light bulb or use an embossing gun. To heat the powder. Once it gets hot it will melt and adhere to the paper. This makes a fun and easy way to have a very elegant gold embossed baby footprint shower invitation.
4. Cut Out
With this technique you will want to find some stiff paper. Then you will pencil in an outline of a baby footprint and cut it out. You can also make a simple stencil suing a file folder and then quickly trace around the stencil and cut out to speed up the process and make the results more uniform. Then on the baby of the cut out footprint you can write all of your important twins’ baby shower details. Where it will take place, RSVP information and so forth.
Either way that you choose the important thing to remember is to have fun in creating the twins baby shower invitation footprint. Get some friends to help you if you plan on making your own invitations as this will speed up the entire process. It can also be more fun with a group of girlfriends around a table talking and having a good time then cutting 25 baby shower footprint invitations all by yourself.
As an addition to the fun
Twins’ baby shower footprint invitation, it can be lots of fun to continue with the footprint theme in decorating for the part. You can use the same stamps and decorations that you used on the invitation in other places to decorate for the shower.
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